PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rocco Roman (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alex Graves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Alex Graves looks lathargic as he enters the arena. Wake up son, you're about to have a fight!

Roman
vs
Graves

180 cm
22
205 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

190 cm
25
212 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Abu Dhabi Champ
Solid boxing
Granite chin

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Rocco Roman!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Alex Graves!
The judges for this bout are James Atkins, Richard Clark and Daniel Bishop.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Graves takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.

It looks like Alex Graves has been cut.

Roman clinches up against the cage.
Roman lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Roman tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Graves avoids it.
Roman displaying some good clinch control by pressing Graves up against the cage.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Roman lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Roman scores with a nice hook to the head.
Graves takes a knee to the side of the body.
Graves looks winded!
A nice right hand lands inside from Roman.

Graves is rocked!
Graves blocks an uppercut.
Graves is still on wobbly legs! Can Roman finish him?
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Roman.
Roman is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Good body shot from Roman.
Roman misses with a short punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Roman.
A head punch on the inside from Roman fails to land.
Roman swings wildly with an uppercut but Graves uses good head movement to avoid it.
Roman tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Roman misses with the head strike.
Roman swings wildly with an uppercut but Graves uses good head movement to avoid it.
Roman fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Roman fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Roman misses with a short punch on the inside.
Roman misses with a short punch on the inside.
A head punch on the inside from Roman fails to land.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Graves.
Roman misses with the head strike.
Roman has a couple of punches blocked by Graves.
Roman swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Graves seems to have recovered his senses.
Roman pushes Graves against the cage. Roman is working some dirty boxing. Roman pushes off with a quick right hook! Graves goes down! Graves tries to stand but stumbles back to his kness! Roman moves in to finish and the ref steps in to prevent any more damage!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Rocco Roman!